[Eve Mallow Mystery 01] • Mystery on Hidden Lane

**Meet Eve Mallow: an American far from home, a professional busybody… and an amateur detective?**

Seasoned obituary writer **Eve Mallow** has a new assignment: to tell the life story of famed musician Bernard Fitzpatrick. A chance to spend a few days in the sweet little village of Saxford St Peter, walking the country lanes with her beloved dachshund Gus and meeting new people sounds like a dream. But it turns out that Bernard’s life was much less interesting than his death. On the day she arrives, news breaks that the charismatic cellist was the victim of a grisly murder. **Could this quaint English village be hiding a dark secret?**

As Eve starts to interview Bernard’s friends and colleagues, she finds that he’d ruffled a few feathers. In fact, from the keepers of the Cross Keys Inn to his own staff at High House, there’s barely a person in town who doesn’t have some reason to hate him… **is one of the friendly villagers a cold-blooded killer?**

Eve hoped Saxford St Peter would be the perfect escape from her busy city life. But there is darkness even in the most sunlit of settings. And when a second body is found, Eve becomes certain that one of the people she’s met must be the murderer. She has never done any detective work before… **but is there something in her notes that can crack the case?**

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